..Prehypertension has been shown to be an early risk factor of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We investigated the prevalence and pattern of cardiometabolic risk factors in prehypertension in three ethnic Asian populations in Singapore...

Markers of Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Metabolic Syndrome in a Multiethnic Sample of US Adults: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2008

..16). In subgroup analyses, this association was consistently present among men and women and all race-ethnic groups. In summary, SDB was independently associated with metabolic syndrome in a nationally representative sample of US adults...

Income is a stronger predictor of mortality than education in a national sample of US adults

Charumathi SabanayagamDepartment of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USAJ Health Popul Nutr 30:82-6. 2012

..05 (0.85-1.31, p trend=0.57)]. The results suggest that income may be a stronger predictor of mortality than education, and narrowing the income differentials may reduce the health disparities...

..01. However, there were no ethnic differences in this association, P-interaction = 0.7. In a nationally representative sample of US adults, SDB was independently associated with diabetes only in women, but not in men...

Association between Serum Uric Acid Levels and Diabetes Mellitus

Pavani BandaruDepartment of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USAInt J Endocrinol 2011:604715. 2011

..35-0.66; P trend <0.0001). The results were consistent in subgroup analysis by gender and hypertension status. Higher serum uric acid levels were inversely associated with diabetes mellitus in a representative sample of US adults...

Perfluoroalkyl chemicals and elevated serum uric acid in US adults

Anoop ShankarDepartment of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USAClin Epidemiol 3:251-8. 2011

..We examined the relationship of serum perfluoroalkyl chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonate, and elevated uric acid levels in a representative sample of US adults...

The relationship between insufficient sleep and self-rated health in a nationally representative sample

Sarah Dee GeigerDepartment of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506, USAJ Environ Public Health 2012:518263. 2012

..58) for 21-29 days, and and 2.71 (2.53-2.90) for 30 days of insufficient sleep in the prior 30 days (P-trend <0.0001). In a nationally representative sample, increasing categories of insufficient sleep were associated with poor SRH...

..02. Conclusions. Urinary BPA levels are positively associated with MetS, in a representative sample of US adults and independent of traditional risk factors for MetS. Future, prospective studies are needed to confirm our findings...

Association between Serum Uric Acid Levels and Sleep Variables: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2005-2008

..This association is consistently present across gender and race-ethnic groups. Future prospective studies are needed to confirm or disprove this finding...

Association between serum IGF-1 and diabetes among U.S. adults

Srinivas TeppalaDepartment of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USADiabetes Care 33:2257-9. 2010

..Serum insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 may have a role in the maintenance of glucose homeostasis. We examined the association between serum IGF-1 and diabetes in a representative sample of U.S. adults...

..99 (1.13-3.48)), but not among non-Hispanic blacks (1.10 (0.70-1.73)). Conclusion. SDB markers were associated with prediabetes. This association was stronger in women and was present mainly in non-Hispanic whites and Mexican Americans...

Bisphenol A and peripheral arterial disease: results from the NHANES

Anoop ShankarDepartment of Epidemiology, West Virginia University School of Public Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, USAEnviron Health Perspect 120:1297-300. 2012

..Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a subclinical measure of atherosclerotic vascular disease and a strong independent risk factor for CVD and mortality...

Perfluorooctanoic acid and cardiovascular disease in US adults

Anoop ShankarDepartment of Epidemiology, West Virginia University School of Public Health, Morgantown, 26506, USAArch Intern Med 172:1397-403. 2012

..However, this association in humans has not been previously examined. We therefore examined the independent relationship between serum PFOA levels and CVD outcomes in a representative sample of Americans...

Anoop ShankarDepartment of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USADiabetes Care 34:1114-9. 2011

..However, previous studies have not examined the association between low serum 25(OH)D levels and prediabetes...

Relationship between serum cystatin C and hypertension among US adults without clinically recognized chronic kidney disease

Anoop ShankarDepartment of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USAJ Am Soc Hypertens 5:378-84. 2011

..51 in men. In a representative sample of US adults, mild reductions in kidney function as measured by higher serum cystatin C levels among subjects without clinically recognized CKD are associated with hypertension in women, but not men...

..C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation, is associated with diabetes and CVD. However, studies examining the association between CRP and prediabetes among participants without diabetes are limited...

Relationship between glycated haemoglobin and microvascular complications: is there a natural cut-off point for the diagnosis of diabetes?

C SabanayagamDepartment of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeDiabetologia 52:1279-89. 2009

..This study was designed to determine whether the relationship of glycated haemoglobin to diabetic microvascular complications shows any natural thresholds that could be useful in diagnosing diabetes...

A ShankarDivision of Epidemiology, Department of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, SingaporeExp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 115:203-6. 2007

..The incidence of recently defined outcome of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has not been widely reported in type 1 diabetes...

A ShankarDepartment of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeJ Hum Hypertens 20:937-45. 2006